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Michael Bérubé and I share the same politics; so do the vast majority of our colleagues (Sept. 17). Bérubé doesn't think that's a problem, however, because our students continue to challenge us in the classroom. But that's hardly a fair match,...

To the Editor: By focusing upon an imaginary future conflict with Iran, Paul Kane misses the best argument in favor of national conscription: it would bring our present-day misadventure in Iraq to a hasty conclusion. Most of my students are...

To the Editor: The most depressing aspect of this episode is the students' passive response to it. ''We can't do anything about it,'' said one 15-year-old student in Fulton, Mo. ''We just have to obey.''

July 20, 2003, Sunday

To the Editor: I share Paul Krugman's outrage at the radio-driven campaign against the Dixie Chicks, who had the temerity to criticize President Bush (''Channels of Influence,'' column, March 25). But I'm equally outraged by Mr. Krugman's...

THE Texas Board of Education will soon decide which history textbooks may be used in the state. Activists on the left and right are lobbying the board, to influence its choices. One text has already been withdrawn because it referred to...